Upgraded My Internet Connection Again
November 24th, 2008I have been very happy with my 25 Mb/s connection with Dansk Bredbånd. I’ve had no problems at all, it’s totally stable and I always get full bandwidth.
However knowing that over time prices always drop and bandwidth increases I has a look at the Dansk Bredbånd website a few days ago to find exactly that had happened. Their basic internet package is now 10 Mb/s with two new packages being 50 Mb/s and 100 Mb/s.
Looking further at the prices it would cost me an extra 50 DKK a month (about £5.50 or $8.50) to increase my connection from 25 to 50 Mb/s. Of course this was a no brainer so now my connection runs really fast, to be honest much faster than I need. Just to put it into perspective here’s the download times for varous pieces of software I download or update regularly.
- Fedora 10 (out tomorrow) – 3553 Mb takes 9.5 minutes
- Ubuntu 8.10 – 699 Mb takes 112 seconds (1 minute 52 seconds)
- OpenOffice 3.0 – 167 Mb takes 26.7 seconds
- Latest Linux Kernel – 48 Mb takes 7.7 seconds
Speeds like this are only useful for downloading files, the speed of average internet browsing is now totally dependent on the remote servers performance and other bottlenecks on the way to my PC.
On a related note, in my opinion the website for Dansk Bredånd is a total disaster. On any decent resolution screen it only takes up about half the available real estate, it looks to have been designed in 2003 and looking at the code it’s full of spacer images and terrible markup. For a company selling a high technology product they could do a lot better to present their products in a good light.
I also find it strange that I was not informed of the connection changes, they recently called me to offer free IP TV for a year (which I declined) but something like this that I was interested in I had to discover for myself. Seems that their marketing department need some lessons in successful Up-selling.